I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.

Patients get severe muscle cramps; their skin hangs loose, and their hands look like a washerwoman's that have become dehydrated after prolonged water exposure.

When the large plantations were established in the 1820s and 1830s, native Hawaiian men were employed as farm workers while Hawaiian women worked in the houses of white immigrants as maids and washerwomen.

I have no father, and my mother was a washerwoman.

She looked probably in her late twenties, I recognized her, though, for I couldn't have possibly forgotten that washerwoman's build.

The first woman he sees is a washerwoman hanging out the institution's washing.

On the outskirts of the city by the river I watch washerwomen scrub clothes at giant water tanks.

Her characters in fiction and drama included domestic workers, washerwomen, seamstresses, and the unemployed, as well as dancers, artists, and teachers.

In the case of the washerwoman, it is a sound - the shouts of the fleeing man - that throws her into a panic.

We were painfully aware that the poorest of the poor, such as washerwomen and casual labourers, were still unable to borrow, because they lacked enterprises.

While toiling as a St. Louis washerwoman during the 1890s, she began to go bald.